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Association between catechol-O-methyltransferase and phobic anxiety.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Sept 2004
McGrath Monica, Kawachi Ichiro, Ascherio Alberto, Colditz Graham A, Hunter David J, De Vivo Immaculata
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The authors assessed the association between the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val158Met polymorphism and scores on the phobic anxiety scale of the Crown-Crisp Experimental Index. METHOD: A total of 1,234 women completed the Crown-Crisp Experimental Index phobic anxiety scale and were genotyped for the COMT polymorphism. The authors used unconditional logistic regression to compute odds ratios...
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